Great shot. Glad it did well. My only nit was that part of the tail and feet were missing. Intense focus and textures. I was speaking to a friend about starlings and he too things they are ugly and nasty. We have those black crows (some call them grackles) and although they eat people's garbage and are kind of creepy, I don't mind them, although some say the same things about them. :)
I do not know exactly how these critters actually appear but this one appears overly smoothed which creates a fake like feel for me. I think there could be huge possibles and wow and bang and pop here. But with the overly smoothed image it takes out all the texture all the detail all the personality I would have enjoyed seeing.